Race interbreeding

[Irongut]

I have a rather odd question.

Which races could technically interbreed? I heard skaven can use human females to mutate them into breedingmachines and beastmen can rape human females to get more beastmen.

what else?

slann, human, dwarfs, elvs, halflings and ogres are creations of the old ones so there could some combinations be possible.

[Reverend Belial]

Beastmen and humans are the only two races that can interbreed.

[Irongut]

well I assume there is no real informations if it's possible to interbreed or not interbreed.

[Ysthrall]

There's a varied scale of this sort of thing by different settings....

The Paksenarrion setting by Elizabeth Moon features entirely hybridisable elves and humans, so that you get half-elves, quarter elves, and "families with elven blood" to one degree or another.

Then you have the Warcraft setting, which has, I think, ONE half-elf, who is looked at funny and probably the result of a miracle. But a mixed bag of orc/ogre hybrids, orc/draenei hybrids and probably some others.

But as someone mentioned above, speciation, hybridisation and genetics are not really a subject for this setting. Relative abilities to carve each other into bloody chunks, yes. Having children with each other, no.

A while ago I wrote a set-up and sketched out a campaign for a very silly generic fantasy RPG campaign (possibly D&D). It featured a large group of half-things. A half-elf, a half-orc, a half-demon, and so on. They were all the same age. It turned out they all had the same (human) father, who get very very busy at a fertility festival years ago. I called it Daddy Issues.

Half-breeds. It is in fact just one guy going around causing them all. Xenophile....

[Reverend Belial]

Originally posted by Irongut:

well I assume there is no real informations if it's possible to interbreed or not interbreed.

The fact that there is no detail on the subject is exactly what tells you it isn't possible. If it WERE possible, there would still be Half-Orcs, or Half-Elf characters, or Half-Dwarfs or whatever else. The RPG at very least would give examples of them if nothing else.

They don't though, which tells you exactly what you need to know.

[Irongut]

Originally posted by Reverend Belial:

Originally posted by Irongut:

well I assume there is no real informations if it's possible to interbreed or not interbreed.

The fact that there is no detail on the subject is exactly what tells you it isn't possible. If it WERE possible, there would still be Half-Orcs, or Half-Elf characters, or Half-Dwarfs or whatever else. The RPG at very least would give examples of them if nothing else.

They don't though, which tells you exactly what you need to know.

Makes sense yes

[Lord Canaris]

One of the lead characters in the Black Library book 'Gilead's Blood' is a half-elf. I can't remember if it was the titular character however, it really wasn't a plot point. Only mentioned once or twice.

There were also half-orcs (and half-goblins) featured prominently in the very early days of Warhammer Fantasy Battles but they've not been mentioned since Third Edition.

There are also relatively unsubtle hints that Beastmen take human captives for more than sacrifice and torture in their various Beasts of Chaos army books.

[Shandor]

I know that Vampires cant make other Vampires with Chaos followers. They get sick from their blood because there are tiny Chaos Stars in their Blood.
But Vampires can make new Vampires with Elves.

[Reverend Belial]

Originally posted by Night Engine:

One of the lead characters in the Black Library book 'Gilead's Blood' is a half-elf. I can't remember if it was the titular character however, it really wasn't a plot point. Only mentioned once or twice.

There were also half-orcs (and half-goblins) featured prominently in the very early days of Warhammer Fantasy Battles but they've not been mentioned since Third Edition.

Those were from back before Warhammer was actually Warhammer and was a lore-less amalgam of random models GW produced for other companies. Neither of those things are still valid in the current lore.

[TheAlmightyProo]

Originally posted by Shandor:

I know that Vampires cant make other Vampires with Chaos followers. They get sick from their blood because there are tiny Chaos Stars in their Blood.
But Vampires can make new Vampires with Elves.

Tiny Chaos stars in their blood...? Lol.

[Lord Canaris]

There's no reason Gilead's Blood isn't still canon. It was written in 2001, that's 6th edition and not much changed radically until Age of Sigmar. This game is definitely 8th edition.

I agree with you about the half-orc stuff, though. That is quite apocryphal. However, we are relatively certain that orkz have females somewhere. They're not spore-based like their 40k counterparts and they have navels and nipples. It's hard to say exactly how they reproduce as it's only touched upon derision or jest.

[SleepyNarwhalz]

Originally posted by Night Engine:

There's no reason Gilead's Blood isn't still canon. It was written in 2001, that's 6th edition and not much changed radically until Age of Sigmar.

I agree with you about the half-orc stuff, though. That is quite apocryphal. However, we are relatively certain that orkz have females somewhere. They're not spore-based like their 40k counterparts and they have navels and nipples. It's hard to say exactly how they reproduce as it's only touched upon derision or jest.

They are 100% spawned from fungus in Fantasy. It's been confirmed several times.

[Lord Canaris]

Provide a source? It's not in any of the army books I have.

[SleepyNarwhalz]

Originally posted by Night Engine:

Provide a source? It's not in any of the army books I have.

It's in the 8th edition army book and the Skarsnik book.

[Reverend Belial]

Originally posted by Night Engine:

There's no reason Gilead's Blood isn't still canon. It was written in 2001, that's 6th edition and not much changed radically until Age of Sigmar. This game is definitely 8th edition.

I agree with you about the half-orc stuff, though. That is quite apocryphal. However, we are relatively certain that orkz have females somewhere. They're not spore-based like their 40k counterparts and they have navels and nipples. It's hard to say exactly how they reproduce as it's only touched upon derision or jest.

6th ed is still pretty old and outdated. The Florin and Lorenzo novels are from probably about that era and they're not canon either.

[Lord Canaris]

The 8th edition book says that Squigs are fungal and that orcs might or might not be related to them in some way but only orcs know and they're not telling. I haven't read 'Skarsnik' though.